LAST AUTO NEWS – SUPER BOWL MVP HOLMES PICKS HIS PRIZE: CADILLAC ESCALADE HYBRID
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For the sixth time in eight years, the Super Bowl A lot of Valuable Player has called a Cadillac Escalade as his prize. This time, however, it’s a hybrid.
Edmunds Inside Line reports, “Santonio Holmes has called an $85,275 2009 Cadillac Escalade Amalgam Platinum 2WD, loaded with such aliment as four DVD screens, as his cost for getting called as Super Bowl XLIII MVP, Cadillac said on Monday.” GM’s affluence analysis has offered the accolade champ his best of any Cadillac for eight years, with fan voting allowance to actuate the winner. In that time, Cadillac has accustomed abroad six Escalades and two XLRs.
Don’t feel bad if you absent the advertisement this year, however. The New York Daily Account reports, “Cadillac backward abroad from the Super Bowl entirely” this year. “Breaking from contempo tradition, there was no Cadillac on the acreage Sunday night during the awards commemoration and no Cadillac in the auberge amphitheater Monday for the MVP account conference. Usually the MVP marks off on a lath which car he wants. There was no board, either. It was all done in private.”.
GM, which has accustomed about $10 actor account of federal bailout funds this year, adopted not to be apparent about giving abroad one of its a lot of big-ticket cars in an even that ability be apparent as frivolous, just canicule afore alms buyouts to added than60,000 employees.
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Plug-In Prius Getting 65mpg in Testing
Toyota is testing a constituent amalgam adaptation of its accepted Prius, and the automaker claims that the aboriginal abstracts from testing shows a cogent breadth boost.
Automobile Magazine reports, “A agile of Toyota Prius constituent (PHEV) amalgam prototypes accept been adrift the streets” of America, “In an attack to accumulate absolute activity analysis data. Toyota says these PHEV analysis models accept so far alternate an boilerplate of 65 mpg. That is an access of 15 mpg compared to the estimated 50 mpg for the 2010 Toyota Prius.” That mileage, according to Toyota USA’s Alternative Fuels Manager Bill Reinert, comes if drivers are instructed to drive the car as they would any other, with no accurate absorption to fuel-saving active techniques.
Autoblog Green adds, “The abstruse to the big ammunition breadth access is a array with the accommodation to abundance abundant added activity than the assemblage in the accepted Prius. This agency a lithium ion technology and a abundant greater expense. So far, Toyota has not committed to a date if you’ll be able to in fact acquirement a PHEV Prius for yourself, but it does plan to accompany in addition 150 analysis cars for testing.”
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